3124 - ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Kathīr ibn Dīnār informed me, saying: My father narrated to us, from Shuʿayb, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab informed me, saying:

I heard Abū Hurayrah say: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "The parable of the one who strives in the way of Allah — and Allah knows best who strives in the way of Allah — is like the parable of one who fasts and stands in prayer. And Allah has undertaken for the one who strives in His way that He will either take his soul and admit him to Paradise, or return him safe with whatever reward or spoils he has obtained."

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= Also recorded by Aḥmad (10407) from Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad, from al-Layth ibn Saʿd, with this chain of transmission.
It has preceded before this via the path of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah.
It will come via the path of Abū Zurʿah ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Hurayrah, under number (5030), and it will be repeated with its chain and text under number (5029).
Al-Sindī said: His saying: "Allah has undertaken" means: He has guaranteed. And "a guarantor" means: one who provides a guarantee, or that which is guaranteed.
(1) In (R) and (H) and the margin of (K): for those who strive.
(2) In the margin of (H): the way of Allah.
(3) In (H): that He takes his soul, and in its margin: that He takes his soul, and in the margin of (K): takes his soul.
(4) Its chain is authentic. Shuʿayb: he is Ibn Abī Ḥamzah, and al-Zuhrī: he is Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihāb. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (4317).
Also recorded by al-Bukhārī (2787) from Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ, from Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, with this chain of transmission.
The first part of it was also recorded by Aḥmad (10000) and Ibn Ḥibbān (4621) via the path of Mālik, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, and in it: "like the one who fasts and stands in prayer, who does not slacken from fasting and prayer until he returns."
Also recorded by Aḥmad (9648) and Ibn Ḥibbān (4622) via the path of Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayrah, with similar wording.
The first part with similar wording was recorded by Aḥmad (9481) and (9920), Muslim (1878), al-Tirmidhī (1619), and Ibn Ḥibbān (4627) via the path of Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, and in =